<![CDATA[Faldon Forums]]> https://www.faldon.org/ Fri, 26 Jun 2026 22:08:15 +0000 PunBB <![CDATA[2026/6/26]]> https://www.faldon.org/topic/7832/new/posts/ No major update this week. I only had time to work a little bit on scripting earlier in the week. I hope you are all doing well. Have a good weekend!

God bless.

James

]]> Fri, 26 Jun 2026 22:08:15 +0000 https://www.faldon.org/topic/7832/new/posts/ <![CDATA[2026/6/22 Update (Server-Side-Only)]]> https://www.faldon.org/topic/7831/new/posts/ I've changed the game scripting, so there is no longer any distinction between an "NPC ID" and an "NPC tag ID" inside scripts.

You shouldn't notice this unless there I introduced any bugs with this, but if you see any quest bugs, etc., definitely let me know. Thank you!

God bless.

James

]]> Thu, 25 Jun 2026 15:53:43 +0000 https://www.faldon.org/topic/7831/new/posts/ <![CDATA[2026/6/16 Update (Server-Side-Only)]]> https://www.faldon.org/topic/7829/new/posts/ I've updated the server's scripting language from Pawn 3.3 (2009) to Pawn 4.1 (2024). I had to change a few scripts to make them work again, but, definitely let me know if any scripts are still broken! Thank you!

God bless.

James

]]> Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:39:16 +0000 https://www.faldon.org/topic/7829/new/posts/ <![CDATA[Raid broken]]> https://www.faldon.org/topic/7828/new/posts/ Its currently respawning the mobs you kill with no counter and seems like there could be way more than 125 mobs dunno if its stuck on raid with no end or not yet tried killing them killed like 100 and town square still full lol

]]> Fri, 12 Jun 2026 02:27:26 +0000 https://www.faldon.org/topic/7828/new/posts/ <![CDATA[2026/6/3]]> https://www.faldon.org/topic/7827/new/posts/ Still no time to work on the game this week.

I still need to till beds for tomatoes, peppers, and squash.

Hopefully I can get back to this once that's all done.

God bless.

James

]]> Mon, 08 Jun 2026 16:47:39 +0000 https://www.faldon.org/topic/7827/new/posts/ <![CDATA[2026/5/28]]> https://www.faldon.org/topic/7826/new/posts/ Still more summer work to do. I have not had much time to work on the game this week (only about three hours).

I hope you all have a good weekend.

God bless.

James

]]> Wed, 27 May 2026 14:29:24 +0000 https://www.faldon.org/topic/7826/new/posts/ <![CDATA[possible server down]]> https://www.faldon.org/topic/7824/new/posts/ Getting unknown failure reason when trying to log in.

]]> Mon, 25 May 2026 13:52:27 +0000 https://www.faldon.org/topic/7824/new/posts/ <![CDATA[Unknown failure reason upon trying to log in.]]> https://www.faldon.org/topic/7825/new/posts/ Here we go again... staying logged in for now.

]]> Mon, 25 May 2026 03:02:46 +0000 https://www.faldon.org/topic/7825/new/posts/ <![CDATA[2026/5/21]]> https://www.faldon.org/topic/7820/new/posts/ There won't be an update this coming week. I need to get my chicken fence finished and the garden planted. I hope you all are enjoying the summer weather.

God bless.

James

]]> Tue, 19 May 2026 16:53:59 +0000 https://www.faldon.org/topic/7820/new/posts/ <![CDATA[Help Im a Skeleton....]]> https://www.faldon.org/topic/7822/new/posts/ All the sudden I am a skeleton... No dawg not nice.

]]> Tue, 19 May 2026 16:39:26 +0000 https://www.faldon.org/topic/7822/new/posts/ <![CDATA[2026/5/14]]> https://www.faldon.org/topic/7819/new/posts/ No update this week unfortunately. I've been converting some of the Visual Basic server code into C, so that I can move monster spawns into the map editor.

(There are advantages to doing this beyond just editing. For example, I think it would be useful to be able to set arbitrary properties on the monsters themselves at spawn time. Scripts could access these to alter behavior. It will require script changes, though, as monster IDs will no longer be stable, so I'll be adding things like "get monster ID by script name" to the scripting to accomodate that...)

However I did not get too far. Hopefully next week or the week after.

Have a good weekend!

God bless.

James

]]> Fri, 15 May 2026 21:07:42 +0000 https://www.faldon.org/topic/7819/new/posts/ <![CDATA[Hotkeys not deselecting]]> https://www.faldon.org/topic/7818/new/posts/ Once you load a hotkey in the game you cannot deselect it if you left or right click it activates the skill or consumes the item... you can still overwrite the hotkey by placing another spell skill or item but it seems you can't wipe it.

]]> Sat, 09 May 2026 19:47:23 +0000 https://www.faldon.org/topic/7818/new/posts/ <![CDATA[Why was Faldon abandoned for so long anyway]]> https://www.faldon.org/topic/7444/new/posts/ Was feeling nostalgic and checked in here and saw James was posting so hopefully he can answer.

I always wondered why this game was abandoned. I thought this game if developed properly could have been a genuine competitor for Runescape. I actually left Runescape for Faldon since I thought it was more fun and traded my items in a cross-game swap.

Lots of similarities between the two, with both games developed by two brothers, launched during similar times, and were classless mmorpgs. But Runescape kept being developed and the original brothers sold it for like $100million, while Faldon just died off. Saw the original runescape creator is soon going to launch his new mmorpg Brighter Shores, while this game is still waiting for 'new client' for 20 years  lol

Were you ever thinking of developing Faldon or mmorpgs as your fulltime career rather than whatever path you ended down?

]]> Fri, 08 May 2026 11:39:52 +0000 https://www.faldon.org/topic/7444/new/posts/ <![CDATA[Test Server]]> https://www.faldon.org/topic/7816/new/posts/ Hey,

I think the Test-Server is down. My game allways crashes wenn i try to login.

Greets

]]> Fri, 08 May 2026 04:41:32 +0000 https://www.faldon.org/topic/7816/new/posts/ <![CDATA[2026/5/6 Update]]> https://www.faldon.org/topic/7817/new/posts/ Not a huge update. My kids wanted more character creation options. smile I may make different starting areas (tutorial areas) based on these choices in the future...

May 6, 2026:
Added hair color, hair style, and age options to character creation.
Unified part of the network protocol relating to character display.

]]> Thu, 07 May 2026 09:02:54 +0000 https://www.faldon.org/topic/7817/new/posts/